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To ask why the Soul has created the Kosmos, is to ask why
there is a Soul and why a Creator creates. The question, also,
implies a beginning in the eternal and, further, represents
creation as the act of a changeful Being who turns from this to
that.
Those that so think must be instructed- if they would but bear
with correction- in the nature of the Supernals, and brought to
desist from that blasphemy of majestic powers which comes so
easily to them, where all should be reverent scruple.
Even in the administration of the Universe there is no ground for
such attack, for it affords manifest proof of the greatness of
the Intellectual Kind.
This All that has emerged into life is no amorphous structure-
like those lesser forms within it which are born night and day
out of the lavishness of its vitality- the Universe is a life
organized, effective, complex, all-comprehensive, displaying an
unfathomable wisdom. How, then, can anyone deny that it is a
clear image, beautifully formed, of the Intellectual Divinities?
No doubt it is copy, not original; but that is its very nature;
it cannot be at once symbol and reality. But to say that it is an
inadequate copy is false; nothing has been left out which a
beautiful representation within the physical order could include.
Such a reproduction there must necessarily be- though not by
deliberation and contrivance- for the Intellectual could not be
the last of things, but must have a double Act, one within itself
and one outgoing; there must, then, be something later than the
Divine; for only the thing with which all power ends fails to
pass downwards something of itself. In the Supreme there
flourishes a marvellous vigour, and therefore it produces.
Since there is no Universe nobler than this, is it not clear what
this must be? A representation carrying down the features of the
Intellectual Realm is necessary; there is no other Kosmos than
this; therefore this is such a representation.
This earth of ours is full of varied life-forms and of immortal
beings; to the very heavens it is crowded. And the stars, those
of the upper and the under spheres, moving in their ordered path,
fellow-travellers with the universe, how can they be less than
gods? Surely they must be morally good: what could prevent them?
All that occasions vice here below is unknown there evil of body,
perturbed and perturbing.
Knowledge, too; in their unbroken peace, what hinders them from
the intellectual grasp of the God-Head and the Intellectual Gods?
What can be imagined to give us a wisdom higher than belongs to
the Supernals? Could anyone, not fallen to utter folly, bear with
such an idea?
Admitting that human Souls have descended under constraint of the
All-Soul, are we to think the constrained the nobler? Among
Souls, what commands must be higher than what obeys. And if the
coming was unconstrained, why find fault with a world you have
chosen and can quit if you dislike it?
And further, if the order of this Universe is such that we are
able, within it, to practise wisdom and to live our earthly
course by the Supernal, does not that prove it a dependency of
the Divine?
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